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Those with the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce say it's time for U.S. Senator Robert Byrd and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller and the other members of West Virginia's Congressional delegate to throw around some weight on Capitol Hill.

On his 92nd birthday, and two days after becoming the longest-serving member of Congress, Sen.

This week, West Virginia celebrated one of the most significant and monumental milestones in our state and nation's history, as U.S. Sen.

It would be a slight exaggeration to call today "D-Day" for health care reform but it is certainly big day nonetheless.

Less than a week after proposing a new 2,074-page health care bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly wants a vote on it today, or at least within the next few days.

Representatives from the West Virginia Department of Transportation were joined by state and national leaders Friday to break ground on the newest section of West Virginia Route 9. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin joined Senator Robert C. Byrd, Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito and State Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox at the Washington High ...

Lawmakers are lobbying to bring a Bureau of Diplomatic Security training center to Frederick County, with the hope it will usher in hundreds of jobs.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 Maybe it's the Palin tour that's tipping the scales -- the documented, fact-checked lies in her book and her whining rebuttals mount by the day -- but even so, the scope and nature of female Republican lies is so much more outrageous than that of their male Republican counterparts.

Not sure what to give Uncle Sam this Christmas? How about a nice, fat check to help whittle away at the $7.6 trillion national debt? The U.S. Treasury Department accepts gifts, payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt.

Bishop Miege High School football coach Tim Grunhard talks to the team after practice Wednesday, Nov.

Rudi Raynes Videographer: Jerry Criner Web Producer: Rudi Raynes Reported: Nov. 18, 2009 10:23 PM EST As West Virginia's leaders serenade Senator Robert C. Byrd at the state capitol, the senior senator couldn't attend because he was working on health care legislation in D.C. But the senate recognized his amazing career.

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd becomes the longest-serving lawmaker in US history at midnight Wednesday, marking an unprecedented 20,774 days in office.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is planning a "key test vote by the end of the week" on a health reform bill, according to Senate aides, Politico reports.

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Sen. Robert Byrd will become the longest-serving member of Congress ever - a capstone on a remarkable career in which the adopted son of a coal miner propelled himself from poverty to the pinnacle of legislative power, where he could, did and still does send billions of federal dollars back across the Blue ...

As the soft-spoken chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate president pro tempore, Carl Hayden was a legislative giant who was instrumental in the evolution of modern Arizona, with the 1968 creation of the Central Arizona Project water-delivery system perhaps his greatest achievement.

On Wednesday, Sen. Robert C. Byrd is set to become the longest-serving member in the history of the U.S. Congress.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd is already the longest-serving senator of all time, and he's ready to mark another milestone.

If you've ever asked a lefty friend why, if he's so fond of higher taxes and bigger government, he doesn't pay the government above and beyond what he owes in taxes, Reuters tracks down the place where you can tell your friend to send a check.

Not sure what to give Uncle Sam this Christmas? How about a nice, fat check to help whittle away at the $7.6 trillion national debt? The U.S. Treasury Department accepts gifts, payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt.

THE hostility of President Obama's administration to coal - and the arrogant disinterest of his Environmental Protection Agency in the economic effects of its actions - have forced West Virginians to express themselves in an unprecedented way.